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Professor ''Fred Litto'' (Fredric Litto, Fredric Michael Litto) recently retired as Professor of Communication of the University of São Paulo, where he served since 1971.  
Retired recently after thirty-six years as professor of communications at the University of São Paulo, where he founded and directed, from 1989 to 2006, the "School of the Future" http://www.futuro.usp.br, a self-sustaining laboratory consisting of some 70 researchers/producers of digital learning materials, clustering principally in the areas of school-based virtual learning communities; digital open-content multimedia repositories of humanistic material for learners in Portuguese, and learning objects in science education used annually by over two million young and adult learners.


Founder and Scientific Coordinador of the “School of the Future” of that University since 1989, he continues in that function,
He is currently in a fourth term as president of the [[Brazilian Association for Distance Education]], a learned society of 2,600 professionals, and a member of the Executive Committee of the [[ICDE]]-International Council for Open and Distance Learning. His research interests at present center on Open Educational Resources.
Affiliation : Associação Brasileira de Educação a Distância-[[ABED]]


''Not sure that is true, judging by our chat last summer in London and also sources at USP'' --[[User:Pbacsich|Pbacsich]] 09:49, 6 February 2008 (CET)
He has also served since 1995 as President of [[ABED]], the [[Brazilian Association for Distance Education]].
He is a member of the editorial boards of ''Education, Communication & Information'' (UK), the [[International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning]] ([[IRRODL]]) (Canadá), the ''American Journal of Distance Education'' (USA), and the [[International Journal for Advanced Technology in Learning]] (USA).
In 2003 and 2004 he was a consultant for distance education projects for the [[World Bank]] and the [[Commonwealth of Learning]] - including in [[Mozambique]].


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Revision as of 08:29, 20 July 2009

Retired recently after thirty-six years as professor of communications at the University of São Paulo, where he founded and directed, from 1989 to 2006, the "School of the Future" http://www.futuro.usp.br, a self-sustaining laboratory consisting of some 70 researchers/producers of digital learning materials, clustering principally in the areas of school-based virtual learning communities; digital open-content multimedia repositories of humanistic material for learners in Portuguese, and learning objects in science education used annually by over two million young and adult learners.

He is currently in a fourth term as president of the Brazilian Association for Distance Education, a learned society of 2,600 professionals, and a member of the Executive Committee of the ICDE-International Council for Open and Distance Learning. His research interests at present center on Open Educational Resources. Affiliation : Associação Brasileira de Educação a Distância-ABED



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